The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-10-13

| Poultry, full average as TO the number
and condition; bees, 60 per cent. as 10 num-
Der and condition; no change in wheat,
rye barley and oats since last report; live
stock, ain average MS to number and condi-
tion. Correspondents in eighty counties
made reports, embracing all sections OF
the State.
THE case of William Patterson VS.. The
Commonwealth was decided by the Court
Of Appeals few days ago, the Judgment
of the lower court, fixing Patterson's pun
ishment at hanging, being affirmed. Pat
terson was one of the murderers Of Jennie
Bowman, in Louisville, last April. Turner,
the other accomplice, suffered death by
hanging, July The day for Patterson's
execution having passed, Governor Buck
nor will have to fix day, which will
probably be some time in December, US
thirty days will be allowed TO file . petit
tion for rehearing-
FRuIT-eRowISG has become one Of the
chief Industries Of the upper counties Of
this State.
THE Commercial Conference is the first
of its kind ever held at Louisville, and the
delegates in attendance were so much i'm
pressed with its success that there is no
doubt that it will become permanent in
stitution.
GOVERNOR BuoKNER has declined 20
grant pardon to j. ]. Cornelison, now
serving sentence OF three years in the
Montgomery County jail for an assault
upon tho late Judge Richard Reid, OF the
Superior Court.
THE annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company was held in Louisville, few
days ago. The old board of directors was
reelected without change, and the same
officers were selected 10 manage the at
fairs of the road, Mr. Eckstein Norton, OF
New York, being reelected president,
Mr.. NJ. II. Smith, of Louisville, first vice
president. The presidents report showed
the gross earnings of the road for the year
to be SIS, ,0s0, ,5S4.67, while the net earnings
were 81, l,407,s7416.
The following Kentucky postmasters
were appointed few days ago: Jos. II. ;
Gee, Mount Herman, Monroe County,;
Thee. II. Frazer, White sulphur, Scott
County.
KENTUCKY has 10,459 pensioners, who
are paid quarterly S3l3,0S950.
THE Louisville exposition has "petered
out" and is prematurely closed
HoN. S. e. HILL has assumed the duties
of Adjutant-General of Kentucky, with
Colonel s. s. Anderson us clerk. Captain
Ernest Macpherson, of the Louisville
Legion, is app inted LieutenantC Colonel
on the staff Of Governor Buckner, assigned
to duty as Judge Advocate General Of the
kentucky State Guard. DIR. D. w. Yam
dell, Surgeon of the Louisville Legion, has
been commissioned by the Governor as
Surgeon General.
Two HIGHWAY robbers, James Thompson
and Richard Edwards, from Hodgenville,
are lodged in the county jail at Louisville.
They were convicted recently for attempt
ing TO kill and rob Frank l.ahay, OF the
same place. Thompson was caught trying
to escape from the Larue County jail, the
other night by filing one OF the iron bars.
Both men are notorious thieves.
THE tobacco statistics returned to the
Auditor Of Public Accounts for 1887 have
just been tabulatcd for the forthcoming
report to the Legislature new in course Of
preparation. The list was taken in Sep
tember, 1886, for the crop of that year, and
adding tho previous crop Of the nineteon
unreported counties to the total Of the 100
counties reported would make the total
crop for 1886 about 247, III, 497 pounds, or a
decrease from the 1855 crop of 6,452, 165
pounds. The nineteen unreported counties
are Adair, Bell, Boyd, Galloway, Daviess,
Franklin, Garrard Harlan, Jefferson,
johnson, Knott, Letcher, Lincoln, Madi-
sou, Nelson, Owen, Pendleton, Perry and
Russell, having a listed crop in 1885 Of
33, ,23l ,241 pounds.
The wife OF George Moore, OF Newport,
gave birth to male child, a fewdays ago,
whose head was of most peculiar form.
1hcre is no trnce of skull to be seen, the
head, if such it can be called, tapers from
tho back of the neck to tho forehead in q
straight line, where 'it comes to sort Of
peak or sharp point The position Of the
ears is marked by two small holes, but
the face is otherwise perfectly natural.
Dr. Thornton, sr., says that such mon
strosities are not rare, that several such
have come under his notice during tho
years OF his practice, but the child rarely
lives iongerthan q few hours